ABOVE: The green line marks the path traveled by the New Horizons spacecraft as of
12:00 AM, Pacific Daylight Time, on October 22, 2007. It is 784 million miles from
Earth. Click here to view the official webpage showing where New Horizons is in
space. (AU stands for Astronomical Units, in case you're wondering.)
NEW HORIZONS Update... More than 21 months after launch, New Horizons continues to perform well as it travels at least 1 million miles per day on its way to Pluto. On June 8 of next year, New Horizons will cross the orbit of Saturn...and eventually take Cassini’s place as the most distant spacecraft that is currently at or heading towards its primary science target. For some interesting stats, it has been 640 days since New Horizons launched on January 19, 2006, 236 days since the Jupiter flyby on February 28, 2,728 days till Pluto close encounter operations begin on April 12, 2015 and 2,822 days till the closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015. I got these factoids from the main website. Below are some notable photos that New Horizons took when it flew past Jupiter in February...
NASA / Johns Hopkins University - Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute
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